Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Who killed William Ercanbrack?

At the bottom of a dirt road a few miles north of Coalville, a Summit County rancher was gunned down. It was originally thought to be a hunting accident. Then detectives focused on a land and water dispute. No one has ever been arrested in connection with this case. Now, the case is open again and two veteran investigators are trying to solve the mystery of who killed William Ercanbrack. Bill Ercanbrack was a farmer, a rancher, and a landowner here in Summit County, known for his work ethic and well-respected in the community. All that makes the mystery surrounding his death more baffling. Why would anybody want him dead? "This is the place he was killed, next to the gate," says Bill Ercanbrack, Junior. The rugged farmer and rancher chokes back the emotion as he recounts the day his father was killed. “It’s been a long time but it'll always be there - the emotion,” he says, his eyes welling up. “It'll always be there." "I was in total shock that the father we grew up around our whole entire life had been killed,’ says Blaine Ercanbrack, the younger son who was 16 years old when his father was gunned down. For 34 years, the family has been tortured by two questions: "Who and why would somebody do something like this?" says Blaine. Summit County Sheriff's investigator Mike Wilkinson came out of retirement to work the case that for decades had been cold...more

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